Chapter 303: Chapter 303: The Treasure-Filled Sea of Fire

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Li Wei stood at the edge of the sea of fire, sensing something rapidly approaching from within.

He was on high alert, as if facing a formidable enemy.

WHOOSH!

A Fire Fish appeared before Li Wei.

He froze for a moment.

The Fire Fish was gone in a flash.

Li Wei instinctively reached out to grab the Fire Fish.

The Fire Fish was slippery and escaped through his fingers, darting away without a second glance.

Li Wei looked down at the sea of fire, a contemplative expression on his face.

’There are really fish in a sea of fire?’

’The creatures of the Fire Elemental Plane are truly amazing.’

The appearance of Fire Fish meant there was likely Earth Flowing Lava in this sea of fire.

Li Wei hurriedly gave chase to the Fire Fish.

Following the Fire Fish’s trail, he plunged headfirst into the sea of fire.

Everything before him was a fiery red.

The deeper he went, the more vibrant the colors became.

The outermost layer of the sea of fire was red, then orange-red, then orange, and at the very bottom, a dazzling, blinding white.

It made Li Wei feel as though he were swimming inside the Sun.

’The Sun?’

Li Wei hesitated for a moment.

’Could the Fire Elemental Plane actually be the Sun?’

He didn’t know.

Li Wei shook his head, casting the stray thoughts aside.

’Probably not. Many places in the Fire Elemental Plane are still relatively normal.’

’In some areas, the temperature is only around fifty or sixty degrees.’

’If this were really the Sun, there wouldn’t be anywhere in the Fire Elemental Plane with a temperature below a thousand degrees.’

’This place must just be *like* the Sun.’

No wonder it felt so scorching hot when he got close to the sea of fire.

As Li Wei ventured deeper into the sea of fire, he felt the surrounding Fire Element grow increasingly violent.

Fortunately, he had Basic Level Fire Immunity.

Otherwise, even if he entered using Fire Elementalization, he would still suffer attacks and take damage.

The Fire Element here was filled with pure destructiveness.

Li Wei couldn’t absorb it at all.

Instead, he had to expend his own Power to resist it.

"Hm? What’s this?"

Li Wei saw a ball of light floating past not far away.

He was just about to go over and investigate.

A Fire Fish shot out and swallowed the ball of light in one gulp.

Its body then burst into flames as it writhed and rolled in agony.

Eventually, it was burned to ashes.

The death of one Fire Fish did not stop others from devouring the "light".

Finally, Li Wei saw a Fire Fish that, after swallowing a ball of light and struggling in pain, did not die.

Its body began to expand rapidly. Its old form was consumed by the flames, while a new body was reborn from the fire.

In the blink of an eye, the arm-length Fire Fish swelled to three or four meters long.

Li Wei’s expression shifted. He guessed that the ball of light was probably the Earth Flowing Lava.

He glanced around.

"Have I reached the place where Earth Flowing Lava is formed?"

"In that case, am I deep within the lava now?"

Li Wei wasn’t entirely sure.

After becoming a Fire Elemental Lord, the world he saw was different from how ordinary people perceived it.

Thick, viscous lava appeared to him like water or air.

He could pass through it freely.

Therefore, Li Wei couldn’t tell for sure if he was currently inside the lava.

A normal person would be able to distinguish it easily.

This was also Li Wei’s first time traversing lava in his Flame Lord form.

He wasn’t very familiar with it.

Regardless, the priority was to get his hands on the Earth Flowing Lava first.

The moment Li Wei saw a ball of light appear, he rushed over to snatch it.

He had no idea where all the Fire Fish were hiding.

Every time Earth Flowing Lava appeared, the Fire Fish managed to grab it before Li Wei could.

Li Wei suspected the Fire Fish had the ability to predict where the Earth Flowing Lava would appear.

So, he began to watch the Fire Fish that failed to assimilate the Earth Flowing Lava.

After a fish was burned to cinders, he would then make his move to snatch it.

The Fire Fish were fast, but they were no match for Li Wei in a fight.

Li Wei could swat an unevolved Fire Fish to death with a casual strike.

Soon, he managed to snatch a glob of Earth Flowing Lava.

It was only about the size of his thumbnail.

Just as Li Wei got his hands on it, a large, three-meter-long Fire Fish charged at him.

Divine Dragon Tail Swing.

It whipped its tail, trying to slap Li Wei across the face.

Li Wei caught the large Fire Fish’s tail with a backhand grip and began swinging it around like a windmill.

He knocked all the surrounding Fire Fish unconscious.

Gripping its tail with one hand, he pierced through the large Fire Fish’s body with the other.

He rummaged around inside its body, grabbed a hard object, and pulled it out.

The large Fire Fish’s flames were instantly extinguished, and it perished.

Li Wei stored the large Fire Fish’s Earth Flowing Crystal inside his body.

In his current state, he couldn’t use his Spatial Ring.

Everything was stored in a hollow cavity within his Flame Lord body.

It was the only safe place.

The Earth Flowing Lava and Crystal Cores that Li Wei collected were also temporarily stored inside his body.

He would move them into his Spatial Ring after leaving this place.

Li Wei struck out in all directions, snatching a good amount of Earth Flowing Lava.

He also dealt with a few reckless large Fire Fish, harvesting some Earth Flowing Crystals.

Compared to the pure Earth Flowing Lava, the Earth Flowing Crystals were much easier to preserve.

The Earth Flowing Lava, in its light form, had already begun to dissipate while stored inside Li Wei’s body.

Left with no choice, Li Wei had to feed the hard-won Earth Flowing Lava to a Fire Fish, then kill the newly evolved fish to take its crystal.

Although some of the Earth Flowing Lava would be lost in the process, it was better than watching it dissipate for nothing.

He wasn’t a Fire Fish, so he couldn’t absorb the Earth Flowing Lava directly like they could.

In his Flame Lord state, he couldn’t ingest the Earth Flowing Lava either.

To Li Wei, it was just a ball of light.

Eventually, Li Wei gave up on snatching the Earth Flowing Lava directly and instead started hunting the already evolved large Fire Fish.

Before he knew it, Li Wei had drawn near the blinding white region.

The white light was also fire, but its glare was so dazzling and its energy so powerful that Li Wei couldn’t see clearly. All that lay before him was a field of white.

It felt blinding.

As he drew closer, Li Wei actually felt a scorching, burning pain.

This meant that down below, his Basic Level Fire Immunity could no longer guarantee his safety.

The Flame Power within the white light’s range had already surpassed Tier Five.

Unwilling to get any closer, Li Wei turned to leave.

Suddenly, a pillar of fire erupted from within the white light.

The dazzling pillar of fire spread throughout the sea of fire.

After a while, once the pillar’s energy had been released, its light gradually dimmed.

The pillar of fire disintegrated, breaking apart into countless balls of light that scattered throughout the sea of fire.

Seeing this, Li Wei’s eyes widened.

’This is the source of the Earth Flowing Lava?’

He stared down below in disbelief.

’Doesn’t this mean there’s an endless supply of Earth Flowing Lava down there?’

’With so much Earth Flowing Lava, why bother snatching it?’

’I can just scoop it up directly!’

Li Wei was itching to act.

GURGLE GURGLE! BOOM!

The Earth Flowing Lava erupted from time to time, spewing countless balls of light that scattered throughout the sea of fire.

The sight made Li Wei’s mouth water with greed.

The danger was immense, but the opportunity was astounding.

If he were hit head-on by an erupting pillar of Earth Flowing Lava,

Li Wei would be skinned alive, even if he didn’t die.

And yet, he still wanted to dive in and grab a huge haul.

Li Wei observed the pattern of the Earth Flowing Lava eruptions.

After figuring out the pattern, he seized the interval between eruptions.

He struck decisively.

He directly activated his Cyan Fire Form.

He plunged headfirst into the source of the Earth Flowing Lava.

Taking out a Spatial Ring, he began to relentlessly fill it.

He no longer cared that using a Spatial Ring here would cause irreversible damage to it.

As long as he could take the Earth Flowing Lava out with him, sacrificing a single Spatial Ring was worth it!